Re: Re: Gold and mercury

[Guest guest]

I am having trouble following you here. You are suggesting that Kanner was

right and the gold salts made no difference?

The author is not promoting gold. He is explaining about how a young boy's

autistic symptoms got better following gold treatments for juvenile arthritis

and exploring why gold salts could have done that.

He adds from the Handley's generationrescue.org, " Luckily for parents, our

knowledge of how to chelate mercury out of the body has improved since T.

was a child, and today we have prescription chelators with a strong binding

affinity for mercury without some of the potential negative side effects of

gold, " they said.

This does not sound like he is promoting gold at all.

One could argue that the gold treatment and the improvement were coincidental

and that the farm couple was the actual source of recovery, but then why did it

take 4 yrs and a near death bout of juvenile arthritis before any positive

results were observed? Why did none of the other children " treated " similarly

by Kanner recover? On what basis did Kanner leave the information about JA and

the gold salt treatment out of his report? That's not following proper

scientific method.

The media is generally populist in nature and simply covers fads and trends in

dieting. With very few exceptions, as health information sources go, they are

frequently worse than useless. People are not going to go after SCD with the

same enthusiasm as Atkins et al. because SCD requires sacrificing so much for

the long term and they are all aching for the siren song that tells them they

can eat the garbage they enjoy and still lose weight and be healthy or that they

can have instant miracle results.

~Grace

Re: Gold and mercury

if he would promise not to waste peoples time with misinformation

that would be better

he was fair enough to say the real reason for the improvement, that

is the boy was sent to stay with an 'intuitive' farm couple

he makes a living from it and people don't want to hear sense they

want the latest one day wonder and today its gold

gold is a heavy metal and toxic, there is another heavy metal that

also amalgamates with mercury, thats zinc but why have zinc which

the body has biochemcical mechanisms to handle when you can wave the

more toxic gold and blind them with the glint?

why have scd when you can have atkins , gfcf or south beach?

i just love the media and thier attitude

> Seems ironic, but on the heels of the news story about the boy who

just died undergoing chelation therapy comes this latest in the Age

of Autism series:

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> The Age of Autism: Gold and mercury

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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/article_10

43499.php/The_Age_of_Autism_Gold_and_mercury

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> (If anyone wants the previous articles detailing what happened to

T. after Kanner's initial diagnosis, let me know - great

illustration of paternalism at its best)

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> Olmsted promises to look at some related avenues including GI

interventions in his followup!

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> ~Grace

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